GCC 5.4 vs CLANG AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core testing with a ASUS M5A97 R2.0 and eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6144MB on Gentoo 2.3 via the Phoronix Test Suite. GCC: Processor: AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS M5A97 R2.0, Chipset: AMD RD890 bridge, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 180GB OCZ AGILITY2 + 128GB KINGSTON SKC400S + 240GB KINGSTON SUV400S, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6144MB (604/4006MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Network: Intel 82571EB Gigabit OS: Gentoo 2.3, Kernel: 4.10.11-gentoo (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Server: X Server 1.19.2, Display Driver: NVIDIA 381.09, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.42, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 + Clang 3.9.1 + LLVM 3.9.1 + CUDA 8.0, File-System: f2fs, Screen Resolution: 3840x1080 NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: LU.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better GCC . 1879.98 |================================================================ Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better GCC . 11.84 |================================================================== John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better GCC . 5910 |=================================================================== x264 2015-11-02 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GCC . 160.82 |================================================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better GCC . 103 |==================================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better GCC . 151 |==================================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better GCC . 163 |==================================================================== 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better GCC . 20335 |================================================================== Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better GCC . 37.07 |================================================================== Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.9.0 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better GCC . 65.36 |================================================================== Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better GCC . 34.13 |================================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better GCC . 26.14 |================================================================== Bullet Physics Engine 2.81 Test: 3000 Fall Seconds < Lower Is Better GCC . 7.00 |=================================================================== Bullet Physics Engine 2.81 Test: 1000 Stack Seconds < Lower Is Better GCC . 8.30 |=================================================================== Bullet Physics Engine 2.81 Test: 1000 Convex Seconds < Lower Is Better GCC . 7.61 |=================================================================== Bullet Physics Engine 2.81 Test: Convex Trimesh Seconds < Lower Is Better GCC . 1.76 |=================================================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better GCC . 15.88 |================================================================== OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better GCC . 673.47 |================================================================= Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better GCC . 15452.20 |===============================================================